Joyful revolution: poverty, social justice and a pioneer of participation

欢乐的革命:贫困、社会正义与参与先锋

LSE: Public lectures and events

2025-11-04

1 小时 11 分钟
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Contributor(s): Dr Eileen Alexander, Fran Bennett, Kate Evans, Diana Skelton | Tackling poverty and campaigning for social justice must be with, not just for, people in poverty. This key insight will be explored by speakers and lived-experience activists at this event, through reflections on the life-story of pioneer Mary Rabagliati and on contemporary anti-poverty struggles, and through a community theatre performance. A new biography charts Rabagliati's 'Joyful Revolution' from the war on poverty in New York City and an emergency housing camp outside Paris, through her studies under Richard Titmuss at LSE, to founding the British branch of ATD Fourth World and ground breaking work at the first three UN World Conferences on Women. She was a force to be reckoned with. Kate Evans will introduce author Diana Skelton, in conversation with Tania Burchardt. Fran Bennett and Eileen Alexander will discuss the participation in research and advocacy of people with experience of poverty and activists will perform a scene inspired by the ‘Joyful Revolution’.
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  • Welcome to the LSE Events podcast by the London School of Economics and Political Science.

  • Get ready to hear from some of the most influential international figures in the social sciences.

  • So I'm now going to welcome everybody again here in the auditorium and welcome our online audience who join us now.

  • This is Joyful Revolution.

  • poverty,

  • social justice and a pioneer of participation which is our event celebrating Mary Rabak Gliati and I'm going to take that a little bit more slowly so

  • as to try and get the right syllables and pronunciation.

  • New biography written by Diana Skelton who's here on my right.

  • My name again, Tanya Burkhart.

  • I'm Associate Director of the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion here at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

  • And I'm delighted to be chairing this event this evening,

  • which is part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science and is co-hosted by CASE and ATD Fourth World.

  • In a moment, I'm going to hand over to Kate Evans, also up here on my right.

  • who's a writer and a member of the ATD Fourth World Trust to tell us a bit more about ATD and about the book.

  • Then Diana and I will have a dialogue for about 20 minutes or so about the book and Mary's life and then we'll hear short responses from Fran Bennett and Eileen Alexander who I will introduce at that point.

  • Finally it will be your turn both online and in the room to ask questions,

  • make comments, contributions.

  • For those of you online you've got the Q&A function in the top left of your screen and please let us know your name

  • if you're happy to and any organisational affiliation you've got and in the room obviously you can just raise your hand.

  • The event is being recorded and hopefully there will be a podcast available subsequently.